Birmingham firefighters work a scene after a tornado touched down in Jefferson County, Ala., damaging several houses, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala.
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One twister in the city of Garland, Texas, had winds of up to 200 miles per hour (322 km per hour) and killed eight people, including a 30-year-old woman and her year-old son. Hundreds of homes were damaged.
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In Texas, meanwhile, residents hunkered down for what the National Weather Service was calling a “historic blizzard”.
Chicago-area airports were worst hit with hundreds of flights cancelled as the city was swept by sleet and hail and United Airlines granted exemptions from fees for some travellers impacted by the storms.
“Until they know for sure where those folks are, they’re going to keep looking, because we’ve had in some cases houses leveled, and they’re just not there anymore”, Flynn said.
The downpour has already inundated many roads and has caused fears among residents about the possibility of their homes being flooded, according to Monroe County sheriff Cecil Cantrell. Severe storms are forecast for Sunday night through Monday as a strong cold front pushes through.
In the Dallas suburbs of Garland and Rowlett, which were devastated by tornadoes on Saturday, many residents turned to social media to tell stories of survival and to ask for help finding lost pets.
The flooding is the result of heavy downpours that have been thrashing the southeastern US since Wednesday… Four inches of rain walloped the city of Mobile, Alabama, on Wednesday – smashing the previous record of 2.2 inches set in 1990.
Southern states were still cleaning up from tornadoes earlier this week that killed at least 15 people in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. Four people had been transported to local hospitals with minor injuries due to the tornado, Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency Director Jim Coker said.
Six people were killed in Tennessee and one in Arkansas.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley issued an State of Emergency on Friday and planned on Saturday to tour several areas ravaged by the storm. More than 190 Alabama roads remained closed on Saturday amid continued flood warnings.
Among the dead were seven people from MS, including a 7-year-old boy who perished while riding in a auto that was swept up and tossed by storm winds. A 22-year-old man who was in the vehicle remains missing, the station said.
The Missouri State Department of Transportation says the closures include eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 in St. Charles County.
Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said the snow caused 178 weather-related accidents by Saturday night, with about 58 involving people with injuries.
While the National Weather Service said it expected the storm to lift by Tuesday, severe flooding and travel disruptions could linger until later in the week. The weather service said that flooding would be experienced in southern Huntsville, Decatur, Madison, Hartselle, Muscle Shoals, Russellville, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Moulton and Red Bay.
The tornado tore through a southwest Birmingham neighborhood Friday, destroying homes and uprooting trees.
Peak tornado season in the South is in the spring, but such storms can happen at any time.
The storms came on the heels of tornadoes that hit two days before Christmas, killing at least 18 people, including 10 in Mississippi. The area was under a tornado warning at the time, but no tornado has been confirmed.
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A broken line of showers and thunderstorms continued to move eastward across the state on Monday evening but there were no severe weather warnings or watches in effect as of 6 p.m.
